The DC-3 was the result of a lengthy telephone call between Smith and Donald Douglas. Smith wanted a new aircraft; and according to the Museum of Flight, what he sought was an airplane that ...

The takeoff, wrote a Fortune magazine reporter aboard to record the still-novel experience of cross-country air travel ... Built by Douglas Aircraft, founded in 1921, the DC-3 incorporated ...

Ray is manager of museum restoration programs at Delta Air ... aircraft and fielded comments from hundreds of Delta employees, current and retired, as big band music filled the hangar. The DC-3 ...

[Courtesy: airhistory.net] According to Boeing (NYSE: BA), which through acquisitions owns what began as the Douglas Aircraft Company, “The Douglas DC-3, which made air travel popular and ...